commit 371cd7ac4f538f6f70ae9c35680e78d39f9e01dd Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Tue Sep 22 14:35:11 2020 -0400
Try to document pathbias fields in state file.
This will require feedback from @mikeperry, since these are a bit subtle and I've likely mangled some of these. --- doc/state-contents.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/state-contents.txt b/doc/state-contents.txt index 9fe41f67a1..58c77bc292 100644 --- a/doc/state-contents.txt +++ b/doc/state-contents.txt @@ -155,8 +155,39 @@ Recognized fields are: pb_circ_attempts pb_successful_circuits_closed pb_collapsed_circuits + pb_unusable_circuits pb_timeouts
+ Used by the pathbias subsystem to keep a record of the + behavior of circuits built through this guard, in hopes of + detecting guards try to that interfere with traffic. + + All of these fields are floating-point integers which + represent a count of circuits that have been trated in + various ways. These counts decay with time. + + "use_attempts" is a count of the circuits that we've built + and tried to use for traffic. + + "successful_circuits_closed" is a count of circuits that + have closed "naturally" without timeout or error. + + "use_successes" is a count of circuits that we've sent + traffic on, and which closed "naturally" without timeout + or error. + + "circ_attempts" is a count of circuits we've tried to + build through this guard. + + "collapsed_circuits" is a count of circuits that failed + after having been built, but before sending traffic. + + "unusable_circuits" is a count of circuits that we + launched as path-bias probes but which failed to build, + or which encountered questionable errors. + + "timeouts" is a count of circuits that encountered a + timeout while we were building them.
Obsolete fields include: